The KDE Project today revealed its plans
for the LinuxWorldConference and
Expo, a European B2B summit for the Open Source community.
Last year, in the conference's debut, over 11,000 trade visitors and
100 exhibitors attended. The conference will take place from
October 30 - November 1, 2001, at theFrankfurt
Fairgrounds, Frankfurt, Germany.
We invite everybody to meet KDE developers, KDE enthusiasts and, of course, our
mascot Konqi, at the
KDE booth. Some details about the planned events, demonstrations and
presentations, courtesy ofKurt Pfeifle andTorsten "Tackat" Rahn, follow.

KDE at LinuxWorldConference and
Expo 2001

General. As usual, KDE will staff a
booth where KDE users can see the latest stable (2.2.1) and development
(3.0.0alpha) KDE releases, ask questions, and socialize with KDE
developers.

KDE Printing Demonstration. Kurt Pfeifle
will be demonstrating the latestKDEPrint capabilities using
the high-quality CUPS andGimp-Print drivers.
The KDE booth will feature two printers:

an Epsontm
Stylus Photo 895, which with the aforementioned drivers produces
superior photo quality output; and

a 21-page-per-minute, full-color, full-featured DankaIC 2100 laser printer, which will be used to generate personalized
output for booth visitors
(including, if you want, a nicely constructed KDE pamphlet, with the
option of including a freshly taken digital photo of the visitor at
the booth or with KDE developers).

User/Developer Presentations. KDE developers will also offer
two presentations, targeted at developers and
users, respectively, through the LWE Conference Program:

Well, there is the one or the other new thingy in there like the side graphics in the K menu (which can be turned on or off) and the new spashscreen :) But basically, it's improvements that are now implemented. I'd like to mention that KOffice and KHTML seem to be the place with the most activity :)

I'm running then alpha version (2.91 CVS >= 20011012) and it seems to be alot faster then
kde 2.2.1. There is also a very cool window deco named Glow where as the name says glows when the mouse is over one of it's buttons. Very very Kool

There really are very few user-visible changes. Everything looks exactly the same except for the side K-menu graphic, the startup spash screen, and the fact that applet handles on Kicker have little menu popup buttons. Also, there is a bug preventing anti-aliased fonts from being used so my desktop doesn't look as cool as it used to. There are a lot of bugs, in fact. The splash screen is available at www.kde-look.org if you want to take a look.

A lot of work is going on "behind the scenes" right now, and I think the user-visible changes (like new styles/icons/etc) won't happen until later.

You'd have to press "Weitere Produkte und Preise" to see the prices and you'll be given the option to add a ~10 in Konqi or a ~33.5 in Konqi to your basket (Warenkorb). Once you're done, you'll have to click "Zur Kasse".

Well, what I don't like about it is that it gets in the way. You have to move the mouse sideways to get around it before you can use the menu. I have nothing against the actual graphic. I suppose I could get used to it but I still think it is a step backwards.